Security Industry Annual 2005: Security Concerns, Tech Shifts = Growth
November 10, 2005
Jeffrey T. Kessler, Scott Schneeberger, and Manav Patnaik
Lehman Brothers
“End users clearly want security systems that combine security and safety policy compliance and that protect physical assets as well as IT assets. However, due to “turf” considerations and the number of proprietary systems in use, this is more easily written about than accomplished in the real world. In a market survey commissioned by CoreStreet (www.corestreet.com) and ASSA ABLOY (www.assaabloy.com), Sandra Jones and Company with the assistance of BNP Market Research contacted security executives to try to ferret out the issue of integration between logical and physical access. (CoreStreet is a leading provider of products and solutions for identity management and access control, involving control of physical and logical access to buildings, computer networks, applications and devices. ASSA ABLOY, with about $3.2 billion in revenue is a leading provider of access control card and reader systems, locks, and security doors.)
“The group’s findings (shown in Figure 21 below) revealed that 61% of companies reported that implementing a common credential for physical and logical access control is very important...”
Figure 21:
Implementing a Common Credential for Physical and Logical Access?
Excerpted from Security Industry Annual 2005: Security Concerns, Tech Shifts = Growth from Lehman Bros. dated November 10, 2005 and released at Securing New Ground November 16, 2005.
